Bible Verses About Removing Leaders
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for removing leaders, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 264 votes, led by Titus 3:10. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Removing Leaders
Titus 3:1033 votes
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
Proverbs 29:228 votes
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Daniel 2:2119 votes
And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
Matthew 18:1718 votes
And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
1 Timothy 3:1-1618 votes
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
Hebrews 13:1718 votes
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Galatians 6:116 votes
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Matthew 20:2614 votes
But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
Proverbs 11:1412 votes
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Acts 20:2812 votes
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
2 Peter 2:20-2212 votes
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Exodus 18:2111 votes
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
Matthew 20:25-2811 votes
But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.
Philippians 2:311 votes
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
1 Timothy 3:511 votes
(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
Matthew 18:15-1710 votes
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
Galatians 6:910 votes
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
What does the Bible say about removing leaders?
Readers most often cite Titus 3:10 on the subject of removing leaders. Across 264 votes, 17 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 29:2, Daniel 2:21, Matthew 18:17. This page lists all 17 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.